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The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.

— Don Kardong

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

— Idris Elba

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

— K'naan

Brother Colm is one of the best coaches who's ever been here in Kenya. He's been, of course, my coach since I started running. He saw me in high school when I was still doing 400, and 200 meters. He decided for me to join his club and we'd been training for one month. That is when he saw me and he thought I could do a good 800.

— David Rudisha

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

— Robert Mugabe

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

— Djimon Hounsou

✗Opposing Perspectives

My favorite runner is Usain Bolt, who happens to be Jamaican and is the fastest man in the world.

— Dule Hill

I said to myself, 'I don't want to be coming sixth or seventh, and being the best in Britain. I want to be the best in the world and race against these Kenyan guys.'

— Mo Farah

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

— Larry Bird

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

— Jesse Jackson

Come on, we would be foolish to say that there's never been African-American leads in some capacity, people of color in some capacity, leading shows or what have you. But it hasn't happened enough and in a manner that is an accurate reflection of the world that we live in.

— Mahershala Ali